Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer aside, nuclear weapons do not tend to attract the popular attention they ...

The task of the historian is often to shake the foundations of familiar ideas, and Josephine Quinn assumes that role in How ...

In her brilliant autofictional debut Eliza Barry Callahan follows a film composer in her late twenties struck with ...

Tommy Orange’s new novel opens with the Sand Creek massacre of Native Americans in Colorado in 1864, then moves to where his ...

We cannot imagine the course of our lives except as it manifests itself in places”, said a TLS review of Fleur Adcock’s collection Time-Zones (1991). In the same review, the poem “House-Martins”, ...

Born in Washington DC in 1864, Richard Dorsey Mohun grew up during the gilded age of US expansionism after the Civil War, ...

When I was eight years old the American TV show Flipper mesmerized me. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin played by a number of dolphin individuals coaxed to perform for the cameras, was the chatty pet of ...

Brian Lowery’s Selfless: The social creation of “you” is a welcome addition to contemporary discussions of the nature of human identity. The author addresses this difficult topic in an easily ...

This week, Kathryn Hughes introduces her new book on the cat craze that swept Edwardian England; and she also tells us about an exhibition of the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman.

At a lavish dinner at the Supreme Court in January 1998, the hard-nosed Swedish arms inspector Rolf Ekéus was buttonholed by George H. W. Bush, with his sons Jeb and George Jr in tow. Amid thick ...